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<div role="main"><h1>Building Manually</h1>
<p>Manual builds let you choose the scope of a build, as well as
options for building, or rebuilding projects. You can view the output
of the make utility in the console.</p>
<p><img src="../images/console_build.png"
 alt="Sample build in console view"></p>
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  <dt>Incremental Builds</dt>
  <dd>To incrementally build all open projects, you can select <strong>Project
&gt; Build All</strong> or type <strong>CTRL+B</strong>.</dd>
  <dt>Build Individual Projects</dt>
  <dd>To build individual projects click <strong>Project &gt; Build Project</strong>.</dd>
  <dt>Rebuild Projects</dt>
  <dd>To rebuild a project right click on the project and select <strong>Rebuild
Project</strong>.<br>
    <strong>Note: </strong>This will rebuild projects that this project
references as well, but will not rebuild projects that references this
one.</dd>
  <dt>Build Automatically</dt>
  <dd>This performs a Build All whenever any project file is saved,
such as your <span class="typewriter">makefile</span>. <br>
    <strong>Tip: </strong>For C/C++ projects, this feature should be turned off.
If there is a checkmark beside <strong>Build Automatically</strong> the feature
is on. To turn it off, select <strong>Build Automatically</strong>.</dd>
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<p><strong>Tip: </strong>If you get the error message:</p>
<p><samp>Exec error:Launching failed</samp></p>
<p>then CDT cannot locate the build command, (usually <samp>make</samp>).
Either your path is not configured correctly or you do not have <samp>make</samp>
installed on your system.</p>
<p><strong>Tip: </strong>The menubar item <strong>Project &gt; Build Working Set</strong>
submenu for C/C++ projects simply creates a link to the build all
target as defined in your makefile, and is no different from an <strong>Incremental
Build</strong>.</p>
<p><img src="../images/ngconcepts.gif" alt="Related concepts"
 width="143" height="21">
<br>
<a href="../concepts/cdt_c_build_over.htm">Build overview</a></p>
<p><img src="../images/ngtasks.gif" alt="Related tasks"
 width="143" height="21">
<br>
<a href="cdt_t_proj_build_set.htm">Defining Project Build settings</a><br>
<a href="cdt_o_build_task.htm">Building projects</a></p>
<p><img src="../images/ngref.gif" alt="Related reference"
 width="143" height="21">
<br>
<a href="../reference/cdt_u_newproj_buildset.htm">Make Builder page,
C/C++ Properties window</a></p>
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